Russia and Georgia share Olympic medal platform, call for peace
An early leader for the Pierre de Coubertin medal for sportsmanship is a pair of shooters, one from Russia and one from Georgia, who shared the medal platform today in the Womens’ 10m air pistol. Georgia’s Nino Salukvadze and Russia’s Natalia Paderina, former teammates on the USSR team, collected the bronze and silver today respectively, but took a moment to appeal for peace in the trouble South Ossetia area.
“I am very nervous today. It’s very difficult for my people,” said the Georgian.
“If the world were to draw any lessons from what I did there would never be any wars.
“We live in the 21st Century, after all,” she said, wiping tears from her eyes as she put her pistol down after her final shot of the event.
“We shouldn’t really stoop so low to wage wars against each other.”
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